Creative and Playful

Welcome playmates. Today, we're gonna get a little silly, a little childlike. So start with me right here by taking a big inhale and flutter your lips. Good. And then just start to move your body and shake it out. Just release and just get rid of that dense structure that you carry around all day long and just pretend you're like a little puppet dangling on a string.

Close your eyes and be a little weird, shake out your legs. Maybe take a few sides out your mouth, roll your head around. Just sort of bobble here. Right? Everything just wobbles and bubbles and, you know, if you got some wrinkles, just let them be wrinkly and wobbly and let them go. Maybe a little smile on your face. Make it till you make it.

Just finding some joy. Right? Shake. Shake. Shake. You can take your arms up. You can take them out to the side. You can swing them. You did some hip circles, some pool of dancing, any little movements.

Okay. Just keep moving. Also, some tapping can feel good. You can make a fist with one of your hands and sort of tap yourself, shake up, dance, tissue, dense fascia, up and down the arms, the chest, go the other side, loose, sitting up. So water energy is moving energy. Right? It's not dense. It's not stuck. It's not stagnant.

Keep moving. Okay. Now we're gonna run-in place. K? This is not yoga. We're just running in place. It doesn't matter. You're on a mat.

You've got a body. You're moving it. You're moving it. Run, run. Run faster. Maybe get your knees up a little higher. Keep going. I want your heart to beat.

Keep going. Just pretend you're like running on a playground. Like, it just recess just began, and it's like, let's go. Right? Keep going. Three, two, one. I'm running off my mat and Linda. Land in tadasana, put your hands on your heart. And just feel your vibration here for a moment.

Feel your heart beating. Take a big inhale. Flutter your lips again. We tend to take this life way too seriously. Let's come to the front of the mat.

Prairie to the heart here on your inhale. You're gonna reach your arms all the way out and up, and we'll just move with the breath, water energy flow down, bow all the way forward, inhale halfway up, and exhale fold back in. Inhale, we rise back up, reach the arms, exhale drop a prayer to the heart. Keep going in, inhale, ardha. No, miss scar, exhale bow and fold.

Inhale Baffa lift. Exhale fold. Write the breath, inhale all the way up. And exhale a prayer to your heart. One more. Inhale reach.

And exhale bow forward. Inhale halfway. Exhale fold deeper. Yeah. Let's step the left foot back all the way into a lunge, lower the back knee. On your inhale sweep your arms forward and up.

And on your exhale circle the arms all the way down. Good. Inhale to plank pose, exhale vinyasa. Inhale cobra or updog. Exhale downward facing dog. Right leg up in the air. Inhale.

Exhale. Step your right foot all the way forward. Let's lower the back knee. On the inhale, sweep your arms forward and up. And exhale circle them down. Good step forward front of the mat.

Inhale halfway up. Exale fold back in. Inhale rise and reach your arms. Exhale a prayer to your heart. Inhale reaching out and up.

Get longer. Exhale free dive forward fold. Inhale halfway up. Exhale fold a deeper. Step your right foot back and gently lower the knee.

Inhale reach your arms up. Exhale circle them all the way down. Inhale Linda a plank pose. Exhale chaturanga. Cobra or upward facing.

Inhale. Exhale downward facing. Left leg rises up, bend the knee, and step it all the way through. Lower the back knee, inhale arms reach up, lift the heart. Exhale arms circle out and down.

Step forward front of the mat. Inhale halfway and exhale full deeper. Inhale rise, reach your arms. Exale a prayer to the heart. Good. Pause again. Maybe put your hands one on top of the other on your heart space and just feel the pulse, the rhythm.

The breath, the movement, the flow of energy. Maybe put a little smile on your face again. I'm just feeling a sense of joy, a sense of connection to yourself, your uniqueness, your beautiful bright lights, childlike innocence, the parts of you that get lost. Let's reach the arms back up big inhale as you exhale bow and fold forward. Inhale halfway up.

Let's just step back to plank pose here. Feel free to take a vinyasa or hold your plank, find your strength, and we'll push back to down dog together. So let's start with the left leg this time, the feminine side of the body, a little bit more yin energy, a little bit more creative energy, take a big inhale as you exhale, the left foot's gonna step all the way forward. Linda a twist, left arm to the sky. And we'll circle the arm big shoulder rolls.

I'm just finding some freedom in the shoulder. Let's do one more. Now, bring both hands inside your left foot. Call yourself over to the wide edge of your mat. Take a wide fold and bow down.

Hands come up to your hips. Inhale, we rise all the way up. We're gonna go to the back of the mat, spin the right toes back, then the right knee, warrior two. On your inhale, reverse your warrior. Feel the right side of the heart lift up, and then take it to triangle right hand down to your right shin. Good. And then come Baffa, reverse your warrior, bend the right knee big, inhale.

As you exhale cart while your hands all the way to the back of the mat and take a vinyasa here or hold your plank. Keep feeling the rhythm of your breath. And we'll meet in downward facing dog. Left side again. Left leg all the way up, bend the knee, open the hip.

And then step it through. Let's come warrior to other side. And then take it to reverse warrior. Your left arm reaches up, lifts the left side of the heart. Good. And then lean forward, find your triangle, left hand down to the shin.

Come all the way Baffa, reverse the warrior, feel the breath guide you. Inhaling. Exhale. Hands inside your left foot. You're gonna crawl over to the side of your mat keep going to your right foot and Linda and then bend the right knee, and then go over to the left knee, and just let this be a nice primal move, feeling into it.

Couple more. Good. And then we're gonna crawl all the way to the back front of our mat, the back front, and step back to plank pose. Take a vinyasa here. Keep moving with the breath. Lots of movement today.

From downward dog, let's go to the other side. Right leg rises up, bend to the knee. And step your right foot forward. Good. Twist your right arm to the sky. We're gonna find those arm circles start to sweep the arm back and down and forward and up.

Just let it be really light. Or maybe even let yourself just get a little lost in time and space and breath. Remember what it felt like to not know everything? Ma'am, bring both hands inside your right foot, crawl yourself over to the wide edge of your mat, take a wide fold, bow down, grab some part of your legs. And then hands up to your hips, big inhale. We rise up.

Warrior two to the back of the mat. Ben the left knee, take your arms wide. Reverse the warrior. Inhale. Reach up. Exhale flow back into triangle pose.

Inhale, come back to reverse warrior, find a little dance. One more time, exhale into triangle pose. Inhale reverse. Exhale, hands cartwheel down, back of the mat, vinyasa here or hold your plank. Just really honoring what your body is feeling today.

Meeting in downward dog, right leg, bend the knee, open the hip, reach up. And step it through, warrior two, other side. Keep going. Reverse the warrior. Inhale. Linda your triangle pose. Where's your smile?

Inhale, reverse. Exhale triangle. And one more reverse. The hands come inside the right foot, and we'll crawl all the way to the left foot, find that skandhasana again. Back and forth side to side.

Maybe close your eyes here. Watery energy moving into the hips. Good. And then we'll crawl all the way to the front edge of the mat, step back to plank pose, and take a vinyasa. Take a breath in down dog big inhale. And long, long exhale.

Let's walk to the front of the mat or you could hop. Take a halfway lift, inhale, and as you exhale fold. Good. Let's lift the right leg. Keep the left foot down, right leg just up and back into the air finding a standing split. Maybe grab the back of your leg here, or you could do some playful handstand hops and Our journey in handstand today is to not be perfect.

Some of you might have this down, but even if you do maybe add a playful element like a wee or you know, purposeful fall. Right? Just beee. Not about landing, not about being perfect. You might even turn into some sort of funky cart wheel or something. K? Alright. Switch, right foot down, left foot up.

Just the ending split. Okay. Do you need another lip flutter? Take it? Stop taking it so seriously and have some fun. Okay. Feel free to even come to a wall here if you want. But again, just adding that playful element.

I like to call handstand my nemesis pose, which is fun. One day, I'll get it down. We're gonna bring the feet together and fold when you're ready and just pause. Grab the backs of your legs. Take a few head nods.

Yes and no. And just let go of any control, any perfect anything you are clinging to. One more breath. From here, you're gonna widen your feet. And come into molus Linda squat.

Nothing like a good squat to open the hips. And this is also a very primal move. You can bring a prayer to your heart. This is actually the seat that humans were meant to sit in before they invented chairs. Right? Eat here. Do other things here.

Take another breath. You're welcome to stay right here. Or again, another playful option, crow pose, plant your palms, shoulder distance apart, lift your hips up, knees to the outer upper arms. Look forward. One or both feet in the air. Try it out. Breeze.

Maybe another wee. And when you've had enough play, you're gonna go ahead and come back to your squats. Take a big inhale long, long exhale. Go ahead and straighten out the legs and walk yourself back to downward facing dog. Let's go child's pose, knees down, hips to heels, take a breath there.

Grounding your energy. And then we're gonna roll up and come onto the back. So just swing your legs out and roll down Hug both knees into your chest here. Good. And then you're gonna take your legs into the air, but with a little bend in the knees, reach your arms in the air at dead bug. Dying bug, I should say, because you're still moving.

Alright. So, yeah, just shake it out. Shake out your arms, shake out your legs, Shake it all out. Maybe do one of those flutters of your lips again. Good. And then happy baby. Rock your baby side to side.

And bring your legs back together. Go ahead and take your left leg out long, squeeze your right knee in. And just take a gentle twist, cross that knee over your body, take your right arm out to the right. Reesat your spine here. Reesat your whole being.

Inhale center. Take your right leg out, left knee in and cross it over your body. Maybe let go of some limiting belief. And then come back to center, and you can roll yourself out into Shavasana or you can come up and take a seated meditation today. You choose what's gonna allow you to land into your beautiful, light, authentic, playful, childlike, innocence.

You might touch the thumbs to the index fingers here to circulate your energy within your own daddy. And I'll offer you the low cut chant today as we seal our practice. May all beings everywhere be happy and free? Noma stay friends. Stay well. Thank you.